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Make This Summer About Redemption
Make This Summer About Redemption by Jen Lawrence This blog series has focused on the fun elements of summer, but I know that many of you are going through a season of pain. In this – my final post of the series – I hope to offer some words of comfort to those of…
Make This Summer About Being Present
Make This Summer About Being Present by Jen Lawrence As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.…
Make This Summer About Food
Make This Summer About Food by Jen Lawrence Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts. – Acts 2:46 In scripture, food is viewed not only as sustenance, but as a way to…
Make This Summer About Family and Friends
Make This Summer About Family and Friends by Jen Lawrence Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble. – Proverbs 17:17* With the kids out of school and a few long weekends on the horizon, summer is the ideal time to…
Make This Summer About Renewal
Make This Summer About Renewal by Jen Lawrence You have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. – Colossians 3:9-10 With its slightly slower pace and beautiful weather, summer is…
Make This Summer About Rest
Make This Summer About Rest by Jen Lawrence By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.” – Genesis 2:2 Around this time of year, one of my favourite passages from scripture is Mark 6:30-31:…